Indeed, my professional life, and Iventureto say the professional lives of almost all of those individuals in the top 0.1% of earners, has been blessed and made immeasurably more successful because of the secretarial and administrative support we were fortunate to have.
But I would ventureto speculate that the Splunk IPO (April 2012, one month before the Facebook IPO) is what will be viewed in the future as the defining moment, the launch of the big data era.
Regardless of your stance on LEED bashing or the efficacy of the LEED rating system, I would ventureto guess that some would agree with my statement that looking at the LEED rating system with a more critical eye is beneficial to the green building industry as a whole.